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    5. Passing Into Diplomacy: U.S. Consul James Weldon Johnson and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Roberts,Brian Russell (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Summer, 2010
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    MFS: Modern Fiction Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    56(2) : 290-316
    Notes:
    This essay focuses on James Weldon Johnson's overlapping literary and diplomatic careers. Johnson's novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, written while he worked as a US consul in Latin America, draws upon tropes of international representation to weigh in upon questions of aesthetic and racial representation. Tracing Johnson's transition from a US representative abroad to a race representative within the US, the essay argues that Johnson's case illustrates the importance of permitting the significant tradition of black work in the US's diplomatic program to inform the ways we approach African America's expressive and geopolitical engagements with the international world.

    7. The "third space" Leonora Miano novelist afropeenne

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Laurent,Sylvie (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Language:
    French
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Published:
    Paris, France: EHESS
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines
    Journal Title Details:
    204 : 769-810
    Notes:
    The examination of Leonora Miano's work offers a great example of how, through literature, a new form of Negritude could be identified. This paper intends to highlight her American (including Caribbean) literary inspirations and how the rising Franco-Cameronese novelist has compounded them with her African upbringing and family ties which allows her to reflect on what she calls "Afropeaness".